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...rest of the world - including its neighbor to the South - are beginning to look like a feedback loop. On Wednesday morning, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Jong Il announced that they will meet for three days of talks at the end of this month in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, just the second time in history that the leaders of the Koreas will have met. But it already seems like a pattern. Back in 2000, with much fanfare, Kim Jong Il met his South Korean counterpart in a historic North South summit, where the two sides worked...
...better than they were in 2000 - and that this time they do have momentum on their side. Back in 2000, it had been six years since the North Korean regime had signed a nuclear deal with the United States, and by the time the two Kims met, neither Pyongyang nor the U.S. had lived up to their sides of a 1994 agreement. This time, diplomats and politicians in Seoul insist, the summit comes amid genuine momentum on the nuclear front - momentum that they believe the meeting at the end of August will add to. Inspectors from the United Nations were...
...economy a bit and still maintain control but that he had to dismantle the nuclear program to reap any benefits whatsoever." Step 1--shutting down Yongbyon--is complete, but diplomats involved in dealing with the North know better than to think anything will go easily with the dictator in Pyongyang...
...Chongyron was dedicated to preserving Korean identity in Japan, running Korean-language schools and cultural organizations, and its strong sense of national pride prompted its support for Pyongyang; in the organization's heyday, South Korea was viewed among zainichi as little more than an American poodle. But as Pyongyang took a firmer hand in the running of Chongyron, it became less concerned with improving the lot of its members than with furthering North Korea's agenda, soliciting money from the zainichi to enrich Kim Jong Il, and before him, his father, Kim Il Sung...
...zainichi as human resources for the North Korean regime." (Chongyron did not respond to requests for comment.) Things became worse for the organization in the 1990s when undeniable proof of human rights atrocities in the North began to reach Japan's zainichi. The knockout blow came when Pyongyang admitted, in 2002, that it had kidnapped a number of Japanese citizens for espionage purposes since the 1970s - Chongyron had always dismissed allegations about the kidnappings as lies. With the Japanese public enraged - even more so after last October's nuclear test - few zainichi wanted to be associated with Pyongyang, or with...